- Fiction, Baseball players, Farmers, Literature
One day while out in his corn field, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice saying, "If you build it, he will come." "He," of course, is Ray's hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson. "It" is a baseball stadium, which Ray carves out of his corn field.
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Nostalgic, warm, contemplative and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- W. P. Kinsella
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 265
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Blackstone Audiobooks, Mariner Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780395957738
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“My father said he saw him years later playing in a tenth-rate commercial league in a textile town in Carolina, wearing shoes and an assumed name.”
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